Israeli troops detained several Hamas operatives in an overnight operation in southern Syria, the military says.
The Hamas operatives were nabbed by reservists of the Alexandroni Brigade in the village of Beit Jinn, some 6 kilometers from Israel’s border, outside of an Israeli-held buffer zone.
“Following intelligence collected in recent weeks, IDF troops carried out a pinpoint nighttime operation in Syria and arrested several terrorists from the Hamas terror organization, who tried to advance many terror attacks against Israeli citizens and IDF troops in Syria,” the military says.
The IDF says the operatives were brought to Israel to be interrogated by the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504.
Several weapons were captured during the raid, the army adds.
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